Basket and handle therefor.



UNITED ASTATES PATENT OFFICE.

.zinns n. MILLER, or nocnEsTEn, NEW Yonx, assronon. EY uEsnE assIoExENTs, To THE rI-Bo-Pax company. or EocnEsTEn, NEW Yoan, a conronarzon or NEW l You 4 i BASKET AND HLIIDLE THEBEFO 1,241,542. specimen mimi-.tent Patented oct. 2, 191 v. .lppllcatielgled latch 82, 1915, Berlal'to. 18,194.44 lenewed July 28, 1917. Serial No. 183,388.

To'allwltom it may concern: to the portions b and Zw, and substantially it knowmthatl, JAMES B. MILLER, ,a in the Ime of the extension b', the lower part citizen of the United States of America, of b `terminating in an outwardly bent porand f-res'ident of Rochester, New York, have tion b located below and adjacent the bend inventedcertam new and useful Im roveconnecting the Yparte b1 and b. The open- 60 ments in Baskets and Handles There or, of between the parel el portions b and b which the following is a specification. should.- b'e of noch width as to permit them "'v The object of this invention is to. provide to eng the 'outer and inner walls of the a vconstruction of fruit baskets whereby the Sides oigts basket, and the. loo connecting cover thereof is-held in place without necesthe parallel portions b* and should be 65 sitating special parts, and to facilitate the formed ad'acent the end b. Two convoiuattachment of a handle thereto, as is, partions are thus formed in each of the downticularly desirable in the smaller grades of wardly extending arms, the outer convolubaskets, such as those in which grapes are tion being formed by the Vortion b and t,

commonly shipped. v and the inner convolution )y the portions b4 70 For these purposes it comprises a novel and both of these convolutions being conconstruction of a desirable handle, which nected by the loop formed between the pormay be readily put in place, and which, tions yb and b which'straddle the walls of when in place, provides means of securing thefbasket. By-this construction, the end b and holding down the cover, and of permitwill be held permanently within the side 75 ting the cover to distend the sides of the wallsof the basket, irrespective of its posicontainer as is desirable in this class of tion, or of 4any lateral movement of the walls ware, both in giving additional strength to of the basketcaused by the handle, or the the container, and 1n 'ving a more attraccover as hereinafter described.

tive appearance to the asket when the cover Such a handleA is secured to the receptacle 80 is removed. It further consists in the conby insertin the upper edges of 'the oppostruction, combination and arrangement of site sides o `the rece tacle between the porthe several parts of which it is composed, tions and b' of t e convolutions of the as wlll be herelnafter niore fully described handle` until such ed es4 abut against the so and claimed. y loop formed between t e portions b* and 21. 85 Referrlng to the `accompanying drawings The bent ends bof the oonvolutions can be 1n lwhich correspondlnparts are deslgneted new paed outwardly through the sides of by correspondmg mar s of mferenoe, the receptacle, which may be apertured as Figure 1 is a perspective yview of a handle at a' for this n so inserting the opnstructed 1n accordance with this invenhnndlo, theel xibility .sem-by the 90 $1011# walls ofthe receptacle due to their construcg. 2 is a vertical section through fruit. tion.` of Eber-board, rmits the necessary basket having my invention applied thereto. icfsuch wa to permit the sli The receptacle A as illustrated in the pino the handle in place, while, upon t e 40 drawings-is of the general novizio use, an le slipp'j into place, the sides of the '95 and V1s preferably made of r boa 'will supported by the portions The` handle B is formed of a single pim b and b* ofthe handle convolutions which of wire comprising control portion or ou. are tan-opposite sides thereof, and thus the l section b, and downwardl om hookgbe revented from slipping out.

mgbterminatingin convolutions In app.- g a cover (l, the edges thereof 100 as follows, the desc 'ption heilig-thatv of the are sli under the bend b of the handle, convolution l on one arm, it ofcourse amd in Behold down upon the top of the understood that theother 4arm is'li-k l basket. B :"preference, the cover itself is formed. The wire' at thelower end of the of suehwidth that Ywhen the basket has been part is bent outwardly at b forming a iilled and. the cover forced into place, it lof shoulder, and then downwartny as` at b', wilhbypmesin u n the upper part of the subst lallgmparallel `with the portions 'portions b ofthe andle, dlstend the lutter,

`It 1s Y en rt inwardly and upwardly as and the side walls of the receptacle, thus .t be, "ik the Partien b ggd the er'mi the 'basket to be fil ed slightly inw` y and ownwardly asat ,Pagnol aping without crushing the fruit upon the 1 cover going into place,

while upon the co ver being removed the spring of the basket and of the handle, will again draw in the sides, (as shown in dotted lines Fig. 2) and thus tend to raise the level of the top of the fruit to destroy any settlement which may have taken place in the contents of the basket during transportation.V

Having thus described the invention what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combination with a basket and a cover therefor, of a handle for the basket, the handle comprising downwardly extending arms having'end parts, each terminating in an outwardly extending portion projecting outwardly through the walls of the basket, the end parts each having above the outwardly extending portion thereon three parallel portions, two of which straddle the walls of the basket, and the third of which is connected to one of the downwardly ex tending arms by a shoulder located above and retaining the cover in place.

2. A handle for a basket comprisi a handle portion and downwardly exten ing arms, each of which terminates in an out- Wg'rly extending end part, each downwardly extending arm having above such end part three parallel ortions, two of which are ada ted to stra dle the walls of the basket, an the third of which is connected to the two parallel portions which are adapted to straddle the basket by a shoulder extending outwardly therefrom and located adjacent to said outwardly extending endV art, and a shoulder connecting the hand e ortion and end parts.

3. A andle for a vbasket comprising a carrying section substantially parallel with the. ottom of said basket, and downwardly extending arms attached to each end of said carrying section, said downwardly extending arms each being formed with two convolutions and having an inner rprojecting shoulder above the said convolutions, and an outer projecting end part below the said convolutions, the inner one of the said two convolutions being adapted to overlap' the Wall of the said basket, and the said outer projecting end part adapted to pass through the lwall of the said basket.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES B. MILLER.

Witnesses:

L. PAnnnn, A. R. TURNER. 

